BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260324T000000Z DTEND:20260324T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Beyond Fiction Book Club - Challenger by Adam Higginbotham DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection\, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space\, by Adam Higginbotham.\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\nBooks will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk beginning February 23. If you need help acquiring a book\, please reach out to Jill Morino at jmorino@wauclib.org. \n\nWe look forward to reading and discussing with you!\n\n \n\nThe definitive\, dramatic\, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival research and in-depth reporting.\n\nOn January 28\, 1986\, just seventy-three seconds into flight\, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean\, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans witnessed the tragic deaths of a crew including New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Like 9/11 or JFK's assassination\, the Challenger disaster is a defining moment in 20th-century history yet the details of what took place that day\, and why\, have largely been forgotten. Until now.\n\nBased on extensive archival records and meticulous\, original reporting\, Challenger follows a handful of central protagonists including each of the seven members of the doomed crew through the years leading up to the accident\, a detailed account of the tragedy itself\, and into the investigation that followed. It's a tale of optimism and promise undermined by political cynicism and cost-cutting in the interests of burnishing national prestige\; of hubris and heroism\; and of an investigation driven by leakers and whistleblowers determined to bring the truth to light. Throughout\, there are the ominous warning signs of a tragedy to come\, recognized but then ignored\, and ultimately kept from the public.\n\nHigginbotham reveals the history of the shuttle program\, the lives of men and women whose stories have been overshadowed by the disaster as well as the designers\, engineers\, and test pilots who struggled against the odds to get the first shuttle into space. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us to discuss this month'\;s Beyond Fiction Book Club selection\, \;Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space\, \;by Adam Higginbotham.
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\nREGISTER
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\nBooks will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk beginning February 23.  \;If you need help acquiring a book\, please reach out to Jill Morino at jmorino@wauclib.org.  \;

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We look forward to reading and discussing with you!

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The definitive\, dramatic\, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival research and in-depth reporting.

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On January 28\, 1986\, just seventy-three seconds into flight\, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean\, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans witnessed the tragic deaths of a crew including New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Like 9/11 or JFK&rsquo\;s assassination\, the Challenger disaster is a defining moment in 20th-century history&mdash\;yet the details of what took place that day\, and why\, have largely been forgotten. Until now.

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Based on extensive archival records and meticulous\, original reporting\, \;Challenger \;follows a handful of central protagonists&mdash\;including each of the seven members of the doomed crew&mdash\;through the years leading up to the accident\, a detailed account of the tragedy itself\, and into the investigation that followed. It&rsquo\;s a tale of optimism and promise undermined by political cynicism and cost-cutting in the interests of burnishing national prestige\; of hubris and heroism\; and of an investigation driven by leakers and whistleblowers determined to bring the truth to light. Throughout\, there are the ominous warning signs of a tragedy to come\, recognized but then ignored\, and ultimately kept from the public.

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Higginbotham reveals the history of the shuttle program\, the lives of men and women whose stories have been overshadowed by the disaster as well as the designers\, engineers\, and test pilots who struggled against the odds to get the first shuttle into space.

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